G5 Taximeter

Keep control of your business &
Protect your privacy

The Schmidt G5 Taximeter is the first interactive taximeter ever developed. It includes fully automatic self-calibration, eliminates off-meter fares with the optional passenger detection system, prevents other parties from owning your confidential income data, allows you to control your taximeter via secure website log-in and many more features!

Taxi & driver performance reports

The Schmidt Model G5 Taximeter is the first interactive taximeter ever developed.

The G5 Taximeter can be fitted with 3G or Wifi to communicate directly with the internet. The G5 Taximeter uploads all taxi fare and shift data in real time to the G5 System Server and downloads all software updates including taxi fare schedules, automated road toll pricing schedules and configuration settings.

Via secure log-in to the G5 Website, taxi fleet managers have instant access to all taxi fare and shift data uploaded by G5 Taximeters and to a range of user configurable reports. Via the G5 Website, taxi fleet managers may also change a variety of configuration and control settings to customize the way in which their G5 Taximeters operate in the field.

The G5 Taximeter is the world’s first self-calibrating taximeter. It recalibrates itself automatically whenever tyres are changed or changes are made to any drive-train components which affect the taxi calibration, such as transmission or differential boxes. Once installed and initially calibrated, the G5 will automatically check its accuracy and adjust its own calibration setting for the lifetime of the product.

The G5 Taximeter can eliminate off-meter (unrecorded) taxi fares when fitted with an optional Passenger Detection System (PDS) installed in the roof lining of the taxi. Using ultrasonic technology, the PDS automatically starts a fare whenever a passenger seat is occupied and the taxi begins to move. The PDS has been designed to ensure that the taximeter is always running a taxi fare whenever a passenger is riding in the taxi. This eliminates the practice of off-meter (or unrecorded) taxi fares and ensures that all passengers journeys are recorded by the G5 Taximeter, thus maximizing the revenue reported by the taximeter.

These days everyone is concerned about personal privacy. The G5 Taximeter protects the confidential income data of taxi fleet operators and drivers by ensuring that unauthorized persons do not have access to their confidential income data. Taxi fare and shift data is uploaded directly to the secure G5 System Server and may only be accessed by authorized parties.

Features include:

Fully stand-alone product – can operate completely independently of other equipment and does not rely on EFTPOS terminals or dispatch systems for its communications capability.

The G5 Taximeter comprises the following items:

A GPS antenna for attachment to the taxi windscreen

An Interface Box to facilitate connection to the vehicle and other systems

A Display Unit

Display Unit incorporates an extra large 5.7 inch touch-screen graphical, multi-colour, backlit, high visibility display, which is readable even in direct sunlight. Display incorporates separate Day and Night views and includes intensity control to maximize viewing comfort.

Tariffs may be manually activated or automatically activated by date, time, day of week, public holiday, location, distance travelled on fare, fare value reached, external signal, or any combination of the above, subject to local regulations.

Highly accurate taxi fare calculation providing drivers and operators with every cent they are entitled to.

Automated printing of fare receipts and shift reports (optional)

Optional voice annunciation of fare transitions, e.g. start of fare, addition of automated or manual tolls and total fare value

Communicates with the internet via either 3G or Wi-Fi subject to network availability for the purposes of:

Transmitting securely to the G5 System Server:

Fare details at the conclusion of each fare (optional). When 3G communications is used, the fleet manager has access via the internet to fare data moments after a fare has been completed on the taximeter.

Shift reports at the end of each shift (optional). After a taxi shift has been completed, a Taxi Operator has virtually instantaneous access to the shift reports via the internet.

Receiving securely from the G5 System Server:

Rate Changes (Fare Structure updates)

Firmware updates

Gazetted Public Holiday updates

Road Toll and Airport Fee charge updates

Taximeter Configuration and Control Settings as determined by the fleet manager

Specific G5 Website functions available to fleet managers includes:

Fleet managers have secure internet access to all shift details related to their taximeters enabling comprehensive vehicle and driver reports including reports which compare vehicle and driver performance. Reports may be customised to the user’s requirements and include comprehensive jobs listings including time elapsed and distance travelled between fares. Shift reports provide a comprehensive history of the taxi activity during a shift including complete time, date and location logging of every fare.

Secure log-on and log-off by drivers at the start and end of each shift. At end of shift the driver enters the details required to complete the shift report (as determined by the Configuration and Control Settings) which is stored in the taximeter and transmitted to the G5 System Server.

Create and edit driver records

Allocate PIN numbers to drivers which are used when drivers log onto the G5 taximeter at the start of a shift

Create and edit specific driver configuration settings. When a driver logs onto the G5 taximeter, the specific payment settings for that driver are downloaded to the G5 Taximeter.

Create and edit taxi fleet management settings

Create and edit specific taximeter configuration settings to control taximeter operation and to regulate the data which drivers must enter into the G5 Taximeter at the end of shifts, to suit your needs

Enable or disable a taximeter from calculating taxi fares

Enable or disable the Passenger Detection System, if fitted

Create report templates

Examine all shift and fare data

Know when every shift started and stopped, who the driver was and full details of all activity throughout the shift

Know exactly where and when every fare started and stopped, the distance travelled and the tolls and extras charged for each fare

Built rugged and ultra-reliable in the Schmidt tradition. Designed to provide at least 10 years of reliable continuous service just like tens of thousands of its predecessors – the G1, G2, G3 and G4 taximeters.

All specifications are accurate as at 15 August 2016 but are subject to change without notice in the interests of product improvement.

Hi-Speed Thermal Printer

A Hi-Speed Thermal Printer may be attached to the G5 Taximeter for the purpose of printing Taxi Fare Receipts and Shift Reports. By logging into the G5 Website and editing “Taximeter Configuration”, Operators may configure the Shift Report style and whether Shift Reports are printed automatically, or not.

The G5 Taximeter can be supplied with or without the optional Hi-Speed Thermal Printer.